After years of captivity, this amazing teenager still had instinct to flee

SHE ran. That’s the marvellous thing. She ran. He told her to vacuum his car.

As she started, a phone call came through to him. The noise of the cleaner forced him to move away from the car to hear the caller. And the girl ran.

The miracle is that she still had the instinct to escape, after eight years in captivity. When she was 10 years old, Austrian Natascha Kampusch was kidnapped as she walked to school by a man more than three times her age. From then on, she was his possession, spending eight years in a cell he had created in advance of the abduction.